NIS server over IPv6

[Mel]

On Friday 31 August 2007 15:23:23 Prabhu Harihar wrote:

<reformatted for clarity(tm)>

> On 8/31/07, Mel <fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> > On Friday 31 August 2007 11:15:51 Prabhu Harihar wrote:
> > > I wish to know whether FreeBSD supports NIS server running over IPv6
> > > protocol?
> > >
> > > I'm clueless in getting information about NIS server over IPv6
> > > configuration and availability in any Unix flavors including *BSDs,
> >
> > Solaris
> >
> > > or Linux distros.
> >
> > Except from configuring IPv6 and host resolving correctly, I don't think
> > there's anything different with respect to NIS. It's all based on host
> > and domainnames, so if a domain has one or more hosts with only IPv6
> > address, then it'll use IPv6.
> >
> I think, the underlying RPC portmapper needs to be "ipv6-aware".  Whether
> this is supported in FreeBSD?  Do you think no other configuration changes
> needed for NIS server / client running natively over IPv6 network?

man rpcbind shows a -6 option, giving it the ability to only bind to IPv6 
addresses, so I assume it's IPv6 ready. I can't think of a network 
utility/daemon in stock FreeBSD that isn't actually.

-- 
Mel